All you guys wondering why Turtle Rock Studios made such a small offer

you do realize they are a SMALL DEVELOPER aka they are the guys behind Left 4 Dead 1 and some DLC for L4D and L4D2 thats it they dont have massive cash flows, and essentially EVOLVE is a game being developed by Turtle Rock Studios what this means is Take Two bought out the game and IP to Turtle Rocks Product and can now do what they want with it change it or even fire the developer and move the project elsewherem TRS simply made a bid with all the capital they had in hopes that Take Two deal fails to go through in which case TRS can maintain there independence and full creative control over their product.

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that's actually kinda sad, that a game dev would throw everything it has available at buying its own ip and fall so utterly short.

at that point, they need a new company to buy them out, you can't succeed with so little capital to develop on.

Also, the South Park game actually looks really good. It's being developed by Obsidian and is an RPG, the one genre they are actually pretty good about. There's currently a dispute about that IP though, because South Park Studios is trying to get the publishing rights since it is their IP and they apparently weren't allowed to bid on it.

Also, Crytek getting Homefront is literally the best thing that could have happened--especially for that cheap. Crytek makes some of the best games these days, and they were already developing the game. I am actually pretty interested to see how it turns out, Crytek could finally make a legitimate attempt at CoD's market, or at least force Activision to start making versions of the game that aren't the equivalent of $60 DLC.

Also, the South Park game actually looks really good. It's being developed by Obsidian and is an RPG, the one genre they are actually pretty good about. There's currently a dispute about that IP though, because South Park Studios is trying to get the publishing rights since it is their IP and they apparently weren't allowed to bid on it.

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I love Obsidian, but I hate South Park. I have been divided since they announced they were making it.

THQ did not sold evrything yet ,some IPs still at THQ with VIGIL studio ( maker of darksiders series ) + homeworld and probably some other IPs i dont know .THQ has around 18m $ cash in subsidairies in europe and assets needed to sell .

Total debts around 250m $ iirc not sure google may bring correct number. They owed 100m + interest just to bond holders

If those that are listed pay up, that's already over $65 million--enough to satisfy Clearlake. If THQ sells everything, why didn't they do Chapter 7? I really don't see what they seek to gain by reorganization if there is literally nothing left to reorganize.

I think there must have been a reserve set. These low bids don't meet the reserve but they still may be considered if the highest bidder backs out and THQ/Clearlake accept the lower asking price. It's basically on the books.

Related question: Are patches getting out more the responsible of the developer or publisher?

If it's more on the publisher's head, I'm disgusted at the notion of the Saints Row franchise going to Deep Silver. I can only think about how Risen was more or less abandoned and never got the patches it desperately needed. Instead, it fell to the community, who managed to release those much needed patches (PowerGamer / NicoDE).

The link you gave says
''Some of the bugs fixed by this patch would take mere minutes for the developers to fix and were reported to developers much earlier than official patch 1.10 was released. So PB and DS if you don't care about supporting your product at least release a modkit for the game so your customers can fix the bugs themselves. '' It shows a fix made by players/outsiders

and i send a link to a playermade fix to a problem (made by players/outsiders ) not solved since game released developer/publisher acted like deaf until now and became worse at every DLC , it is a kind of answer to your concerns . THQ was not better basicly

The link you gave says
''Some of the bugs fixed by this patch would take mere minutes for the developers to fix and were reported to developers much earlier than official patch 1.10 was released. So PB and DS if you don't care about supporting your product at least release a modkit for the game so your customers can fix the bugs themselves. '' It shows a fix made by players/outsiders

and i send a link to a playermade fix to a problem (made by players/outsiders ) not solved since game released developer/publisher acted like deaf until now and became worse at every DLC , it is a kind of answer to your concerns . THQ was not better basicly

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I was leaning towards this as what you were saying, but your post definitely helped to clear it up.

So you feel it goes from one bad hand to another then? It certainly seems that way.